Wander Quotes

• I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

  Plato

  Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

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  Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Nature, Reality

  "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934.

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• To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Touching, Library

  Dan Brown (2009). “The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)”, p.12, Random House

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• It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Wonderful, Curious

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• I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Life, Travel, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

  Mardy Grothe

  Plot, Purpose, Ends

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

  David Douglas

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Journey

  David Douglas (1989). “Wilderness Sojourn: Notes in the Desert Silence”, HarperCollins

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• Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

  Bob Dylan

  Brother, Sleep, Journey

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Mind, Responsible

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• Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

  John Muir

  Wind, May, Littles

  John Muir (2015). “The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Study from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California & Steep Trails”, p.156, e-artnow

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• Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Stars, Memories, Moon

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• For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Doors, Hands

  Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.2, Quiet River Press LLC

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• Night is a curious child, wandering
  Between earth and sky, creeping
  In windows and doors, daubing
  The entire neighborhood
  With purple paint.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Children, Night, Sky

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

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• Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.

  John French Sloan

  Thinking, Talking, Drawing

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• Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Space, Imagination

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Travel, Adventure, Moon

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2014). “She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, Adventure, Times Are Changing

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Falling In Love, Travel, Taken

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• The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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